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Movie Review: Fresh Offers New Thinking About What We're Eating
Disaster, devastation, destruction: Those are the none too cheerful themes of many environmental movies, e.g. The Age of Stupid, 11th Hour, The Day after Tomorrow. While the fear factor has its purpose, we don't think it
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Ioby: Connecting New York City Volunteers and Donors In Our Backyards (Video)
If your interested in volunteering or funding environmental projects in New York, look no further than Ioby (In Our Backyards) - a non profit organization committed to
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Urban Farmers and Repurposed Building for Nonprofit Tenants
Sometimes I miss living in Seattle. I used to teach at a converted building dedicated to nonprofit orgs and low-income artist housing. There are similar endeavors in many cities,
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10 of the Greenest Colleges in the U.S. (slideshow)
Making the green grade nowadays takes more than just recycling a few coke cans and changing light bulbs. Today's universities have come to the realization that incoming students consider sustainability among their top criteria in school selection.
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Getting Wired Without Electricity: The Hourglass Coffee Maker
Image via RT Sales, Inc. If you are able to look into the future at least 12 hours, and want to cut the electricity or natural gas out of your coffee-brewing workflow, then check out the Hourglass. We first saw this gadget over at Dvice. It doesn't take
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Stagnation at White House May be Attributable to Sewer Sludge in President's Produce
In truth, the levels, while not ideal, are far from unusual or unsafe for
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Is This Permaculture? Building Hugelkultur Raised Beds
A mini-digger picking up piles of dead trees, brash and leaves and dumping them in a huge hole in the ground is hardly most people's idea of permaculture - a practice more commonly associated with low tech
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Composting Toilets on the Rise: Are They Coming to a City Near You?
Most environmentalists are more than familiar with composting. Most are also familiar with pooping. So it makes perfect sense that composting toilets would be a favorite among greens--they save drinking-quality water from being
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Does Recycling Waste Precious Water?
Photo credit: jcheng @ Flickr
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The Blogosphere's Top 5 Ways to Green Your 4th of July Celebrations
This week on TreeHugger we've been looking at ways you can make your Independence Day celebrations greener than the grass you'll be having your BBQ on. Avoiding carbon from BBQ's, vegan celebrations in Texas, fireworks and the environment, have all
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It's Criminal Not to Compost: Mayor Newsom on Compulsory Composting
Mayor Newsom Speaks Out on Nation's First Mandatory Composting Law I love compost - I really do. I'm hard pushed to think of one single practice that does more for the planet. From sequestering carbon to preventing methane emissions to reducing landfill
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A Little Toilet Humor: Powerloo, The Flushable, Outside Dog Toilet
Sometimes finding humor in life is as easy as checking into some of the news being featured around the nation. Today's humorous news bit comes from a story published yesterday in the Chicago Tribune titled, "What to do with doggy
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Congress Drinks Water in Compostable Bottles. Who Knew?
Yes, there's plenty of action going on in Congress, with controversial climate bill being hotly debated and the did-she-or-didn't-she Pelosi torture memo chronicles, etc--but if we took a step back from the frenzied proceedings, we'd
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New Biodynamic Tea by Zhena's Gypsy Tea
Demeter certified Biodynamic balanced tea, in five refreshing, summer fruit flavors, is the latest offering by Zhena's Gypsy Tea, maker of organic, fair trade and now biodynamic teas. Now, you've heard of green, natural, even
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Mountain Lodges of Peru: A Green Alternative to Hiking Machu Picchu
Hiking the Inca Trail. Ahh, the mythical allure of getting in touch with a culture that is hundreds of years long gone. Walking in the same steps of these mighty people, for some, is something of a bucket list item. Yet,
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Why Choose Compostable If It's Still Going in a Landfill?
These days everything says eco-friendly, natural, biodegradable, and compostable (not to mention a myriad of other mysterious environmental words. Sounds good, right? But is it worth spending the extra couple of bucks if the item
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The Consumer Scoop on SunChips' 100 Percent Compostable Packaging
Here on TreeHugger, there’s been tons of mention about Ingeo—the renewable material being used in products like high-end clothing, pens, lipstick tubes, computers and other electronics.
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Four Ways to Keep Gardening Costs Down
Gardening is a hot topic now with news about it everywhere: allotments, grow your own, vegetable patches, apartment and balcony gardens, containers, and victory gardens. It's great but the truth is it can also get quite expensive.
